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Nostradamus
Introduction of a Wikipedia article. Complete article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus
Mich
de Nostredame, usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and
repu
seer who published collections of
prop
that have since become famous worldwide. He is best
kno
for his
bo
Les Propheties ( "The
Prophe
"), the
fi
edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a
follo
that, along with the
popu
press, credits him with
predic
many
maj
world events. The prophecies
ha
in some cases been assimilated to the results of
applyi
the alleged
Bib
code, as
we
as to other purported prophetic works.
Mo
academic sources maintain that the
associatio
made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are
large
the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or
el
are so
tenu
as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine
predic
power. Moreover,
no
of the
sour
li
offers any evidence
th
any
has ever interpreted any of Nostradamus's
quatra
specifically enough to
all
a clear identification of any event in advance.
